Saturday, February 7, 2009

Every cover tells a story

I've owned three copies of this book, each with a different cover. My favorite cover is the last one. It's iconic. You can scramble the title and author's name but if you keep the colors and the font it stays easily recognizable to most people.

Least appreciated in this selection are the covers that attempt to depict Holden Caulfield. The beauty of this book is the ability to identify closely with Holden, even if you are a California girl from a younger generation.

I too had the last cover - isn't funny how identifiable books are by their cover? I don't think I spend all that much time looking at the covers but the images stay in my memory much longer than the details within the pages sometimes.